What is the best/easiest way to use scripts to analyze network traffic?

Posted by yungin on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by yungin
Published on 2010-11-26T20:03:08Z Indexed on 2012/06/08 4:42 UTC
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I'm looking to analyze packets via scripts. I'd like to use something high level. I'm in a mac/linux environment. I'm currently looking at different python+libpcap libraries. Perhaps lua+wireshark too. Maybe tcpdump+bash (but not sure that has a lot of info i can use). I also heard good things about scapy. Not sure.

I'm wondering if you have any recommendations? There's quite a few of them out there. What have you found that works best? I'd definitely want something scriptable not something that I need to compile (like c/c++, etc)

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